CURRENT PROJECTS
Encounters Workshop Programme: Autumn and Winter 2011, Spring 2012
Encounters are delighted to be offering a series of public workshops from October 2011 – March 2012. Our workshop programme focusing on parents, young people and artists will take place in the purpose built studios and the gardens, woods, and riverbanks of The Dartington Hall Estate in South Devon.
The Art of Shared Parenting – a series of five monthly workshops for parents
The Encounters Transition Youth Theatre – for 13-18yr olds
Artists Lab – for those involved in engaged socio-ecological practice
For more details click here
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Talking Young Men
We are delighted to have secured funding from the Big Lottery Fund to run this new project, in partnership with the Devon Youth Offending Team.
Talking Young Men is a creative and therapeutic project working with young men at the risk of offending, re-offending and anti-social behaviour in Devon. Weekly sessions will look at issues including Male Identity, Fatherhood, Friendships and relationships, Roles in the community, Trust and empathy.
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A Little Patch of Ground
A Little Patch of Ground 2011 was a rural/urban food growing and performance project taking place in Dartington, Devon and East London. Each week, beginning in May, 25 local people from the South Devon area met at Dartington and 25 local people from the East of London met at Toynbee Studios. The project involved an intergenerational group meeting in each area to create a permaculture inspired vegetable garden, eat together, explore thoughts on food, climate change, sustainability and interdependence, and use creative methods to share stories about our relationship with the natural world. The project culminated in the creation of a multi–media performance in the autumn which took place in each location as well as touring within the local area.
For our weekly blog of the project please click here
Each group met and created their projects independently in their respective localities, although they also found ways of sharing their contrasting urban and rural contexts with each other throughout the process and took a trip to see each other's performance at the end of the project.
This project was in collaboration with Artsadmin and the Dartington Hall Trust and supported by the Arts Council of England, Transition Town Network and the Permaculture Association.
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Combatants for Peace
Encounters are the UK hosts for Combatants for Peace - a movement of Israeli and Palestinian former combatants now engaged in a non-violent struggle to resolve issues of conflict between Israel and Palestine. In September 2011, we were pleased to be able to invite another group of 16 members of Combatants for Peace from Israel and Palestine to the UK. We received funding for the trip from The Evan Cornish Foundation, J.A Clark Charitable Trust, The Amos Trust and private donations and worked in association with Amnesty International UK.
For overall information about the visit please click here
“Amnesty International were delighted to work with Combatants for Peace in 2010 and to support them in our shared aim of seeing Israelis and Palestinians living peacefully together with their human rights and dignity respected and protected. They are remarkable, tenacious and inspiring individuals and as collective an example of what being the change you want to see in the world looks like.”
Kristyan Benedict – Campaigns Manager, Amnesty International UK.
View PDF flyers for the 'No Victory in Violence' evening event and 'Images of Occupation' Workshop
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